7 enterprise management tools for shops with a tight budget

by Michael Kassner in Innovation

on July 21, 2008, 1:56 AM PDT

7 enterprise management tools for shops with a tight budget

Leaders in IT shops with tight budgets (and aren't they all these days?) might want to take a look at these enterprise management tools that cost under $10,000.

Considering the current economic picture, “shops with a tight budget” pretty much describes every shop these days. Michael Biddick, writing a piece for InformationWeek, talks about seven tools for under $10,000 that can help organizations monitor their environments efficiently.

His favorites are:

Belarc’s BelManage
Hobbit Monitor
Atlassian’s Jira
SolarWinds’ Orion NPM
PacketTrap Networks’ PacketTrap PT360
Splunk
Ipswitch’s WhatsUp Gold

Click here to see the prices and Biddick’s reason for recommendation.

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